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Žodžio paaiškinimas anglų kalba:

• noun: A curved or sharply bent device, usually of metal, used to catch, drag, suspend, or fasten something else.
• noun: A fishhook.
• noun: Something shaped like a hook, especially:
• noun: A curved or barbed plant or animal part.
• noun: A short angled or curved line on a letter.
• noun: A sickle.
• noun: A sharp bend or curve, as in a river.
• noun: A point or spit of land with a sharply curved end.
• noun: A means of catching or ensnaring; a trap.
• noun: Slang A means of attracting interest or attention; an enticement: a sales hook.
• noun: Music Slang A catchy motif or refrain: "sugary hard rock melodies [and] ear candy hooks” ( Boston Globe).
• noun: Sports A short swinging blow in boxing delivered with a crooked arm.
• noun: Sports The course of a ball that curves in a direction away from the dominant hand of the player propelling it, as to the left of a right-handed player.
• noun: Sports A stroke that sends a ball on such a course.
• noun: Sports A ball propelled on such a course.
• noun: Sports In surfing, the lip of a breaking wave.
• noun: Baseball A curve ball.
• noun: Basketball A hook shot.
• verb-transitive: To catch, suspend, or connect with a hook.
• verb-transitive: Informal To snare.
• verb-transitive: Slang To steal; snatch. See Synonyms at steal.
• verb-transitive: To fasten by or as if by a hook.
• verb-transitive: To pierce or gore with or as if with a hook.
• verb-transitive: Slang To take strong hold of; captivate: a novel that hooked me on the very first page.
• verb-transitive: Slang To cause to become addicted.
• verb-transitive: To make (a rug) by looping yarn through canvas with a type of hook.
• verb-transitive: Sports To hit with a hook in boxing.
• verb-transitive: Sports To hit (a golf ball) in a hook.
• verb-transitive: Baseball To pitch (a ball) with a curve.
• verb-transitive: Basketball To shoot (a ball) in a hook shot.
• verb-transitive: Sports To impede the progress of (an opponent in ice hockey) by holding or restraining the player with one's stick, in violation of the rules.
• verb-intransitive: To bend like a hook.
• verb-intransitive: To fasten by means of a hook or a hook and eye.
• verb-intransitive: Slang To work as a prostitute.
• phrasal-verb: hook up To assemble or wire (a mechanism).
• phrasal-verb: hook up To connect a mechanism and a source of power.
• phrasal-verb: hook up To meet or associate: We agreed to hook up after class. He hooked up with the wrong crowd.
• phrasal-verb: hook up To become romantically or sexually involved with someone.
• phrasal-verb: hook up To marry or get married.
• idiom: by hook or by crook By whatever means possible, fair or unfair.
• idiom: get the hook Slang To be unceremoniously dismissed or terminated.
• idiom: hook, line, and sinker Informal Without reservation; completely: swallowed the excuse hook, line, and sinker.
• idiom: off the hook Informal Freed, as from blame or a vexatious obligation: let me off the hook with a mild reprimand.
• idiom: on (one's) own hook By one's own efforts.

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